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Title: Electoral Role Models: Political Empowerment and Candidate Emergence
Journal: Political Behavior
Authors: Andrew Janusz, Patrick Cunha Silva, and Andrea Junqueira
Contact information: ajanusz@ufl.edu|pcunhasilva@luc.edu|ajunqueira@astate.edu
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## R-files:
# 1_Libraries.R: Load necessary libraries
# 2_MainAnalysisBlacks.R: run main analysis reported in Study 2 
# 3_MainAnalysisWomen.R: run main analysis reported in Study 1
# 4_SI_Blacks.R: run analysis reported in SI B
# 5_SI_Women.R: run analysis reported in SI A
# 6_SI_GenderAndRace.R: run analysis reported in SI C
# 7_SI_DescriptivePlots.R: create figures reported in SIs A.1 and B.1
# 8_SI_NoncompetitiveCandidates.R: create figures reported in SI D
# genFunctions.R: create functions used in the analysis (RD plots, Sensitivity Analysis, and z-test for difference in coefficients)

## Datasets:
# blackRDD_final.RData: dataset used for the analysis in files 2_MainAnalysisBlacks, 4_SI_Blacks, and 6_SI_GenderAndRace
# womenRDD_final.RData: dataset used for the analysis in files 3_MainAnalysisWomen and 5_SI_Women
# candRace.RData: dataset used for the analysis in file 4_SI_Blacks 
# df_spatial_nb_std_race_final.RData: used for the spatial analysis in files 4_SI_Blacks
# df_spatial_nb_std_final.RData: used for the spatial analysis in file 5_SI_Women
# descrData.RData: used for the spatial analysis in file 7_SI_DescriptivePlots
# noncompetitive_candidates.RData: used for the spatial analysis in file 8_SI_NoncompetitiveCandidates
